HTC working on Android 3.0 tablet due in Q1?

According to the sometimes-incredibly-reliable-but-sometimes-wrong Digitimes, HTC is definitely working on an Android 3.0 tablet and it’s set to be released in the first quarter of next year. Not much else is being reported by Digitimes, and to be honest, we all have assumed this already. Especially with Motorola working on an Android 3.0 tablet due out on Verizon Wireless around February. Our question for you? What tablet size would you prefer most? 10 inch, 7 inch, or something else?

I am looking specifically for the ten inch tablet because I plan on using it for portfolio presentation..

Sean

Yes Dustin I was thinking same for my photography

winston smith

tablets are a dumb fad; buy a laptop

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Jerrys Kidd

I may agree with you. But I have never tried a tablet. Maybe I’ll check one out at a Microsoft store. Are those still around?

GenTsoChicken

I couldn’t agree with you more. Three five years from now people will be reminiscing about tablets.

FunkyG

Nope, they’ll be laughing about comments like yours

Jules

The first company that ships a letter size screen size (8.5 × 11) is the one to buy for me. It is simple, no resizing required to score music, documents, etc.

Scott

Having spent some time on an iPad, I think 10″ is a little too big, but I think 7″ might be a little too small. Maybe in the 8″ range? I’d have to use it to see how well a different sized tablet would be.

What I’m more interested in are the internals and ports. I feel like the Galaxy Tab failed on the ports department. HTC makes some good hardware and I’ll be curious to see what it looks like.

I’m also wondering if it will have Sense? Since Sammy put Touch Wiz on the Tab, I bet HTC will have sense on their tablet. I’d actually prefer vanilla Android. Maybe Moto will do that?

Also, I’m sure we’ll see iPad 2 at WWDC… Next year could be an interesting year for tablets and it might be the time to actually buy one.

LET THE COMPETITION BEGIN!

amberlamps

10 inch…whatever is not made by moto.

Channan

I love the size of my iPad. It’s just the right size for me to type on the landscape keyboard and I can’t type on the portrait keyboard. Any smaller and I wouldn’t be able to type on the landscape keyboard, so 10″ for me.

dipshit

He said 10 inch….

gg

ipad 2 will still be a ‘ intentionally crippled device’. Absolutely no hope until sjobs at the top in apple. May be it will have 384mb ram and back camera. Thats all. Don’t expect Steve to give you everything like android tablets

Norm

DROID tablets are truly revolutionary. A 3 MP camera on a tablet is essential for when you are out carrying your tablet around town and wanna take the quick shots that your 5 or 8 MP camera on your phone just can’t do as well, ya know? Also, a DROID tablet is really going to add so much to the same apps you are running on your phone. Also, maybe my biggest peave with crApple is that they offer a version that is wifi only and not on a contract. What good does that do? I know we DROID users talk about tethering, but that is so stupid when you can just sign another contract with VERIZON WIRELESS. I’d much rather pay for more data and hopefully a cap. Apple is so stupid.

This is definitely not real Jarrett. This must be one of the many Verizon employees that frequent the site.

Ernie

You, sire, are the best!!!! That’s why I love Fandroids! We are SO connected to reality! We know the best and we know that CrApple Fanboys don’t have a clue about what a product should be. We’ve always known that Taiwanese designed products (HTC) are 20-30 times better than American designed products (CrApple.) Eventually the world will catch on.

Quix

Love the size of my iPad. A smaller option would be nice for those who want it, but 10″ is ideal for my needs.

MyBigg 15inch

15″ tablet. You can’t fit a 7″ in your pocket (no penis puns please). So why not have a larger size that is reasonable for websites and watching videos.

Mgl

15″ for a tablet? That’s too big in my opinion. Might as well get a 15″ laptop for websites and watching videos.

Why would someone put a Galaxy Tab on their pocket(s?)? It will be extremely uncomfortable in my opinion.

veritas3000

Dumb except for portfolio presentations or certain eye disorders.

That said, I want CHOICES in the 5″ range with occasional phone calls needs. Must fit in shirt pocket. With or without my BT keyboard, it would be my substitute for a laptop or netbook when I work at the coffee shop and travel. I’d prefer not to focus on a phone form factor. That’s just one small feature. If I can use SmartFTP to change my website, answer email, get UNlost when I’m in Boston, and call a tow truck or 911 once every 3 years, I’d be in digital heaven. But I’ve GOT TO be able to get one hand around it. Gorilla Glass, yes. Readable in bright sunlight, yes.

A Glamor Geek

Seriously, you put your phone in your shirt pocket? Fashion fail.

Mgl

Choices? the only “choice” with a 5″ range is the dell streak.

Jarrett

Ince there is only one Tablet currently selling millions of units a month my guess is that the perfect size has pretty much been agreed on.

Jarrett

*Since

Jarrett

If only my wife didnt sleep with my brother, i would have gotten another ipad.

Listen to yourselves: 10 inches; 15 inches; 7 inches?
Better get some good lube’ with that data plan!

Ernie

I’d prefer 10″!

zee

thats what she said! sorry i couldnt help it…..

Chris

10 or higher. Works for me. Most important a great battery life. preferably motorola branded.

Ernie

Why? So they put that piece of crap Blur on it and then you have to wait months before the morons get a chance to upgrade to the latest version of Android???? I am still waiting for Froyo for my Droid X!!!!! And I am getting really pissed. That thing has been out for 2-3 months and Motorola hasn’t said anything about releasing it.

Is that what you want for your tablet, or any mobile for that matter?

bj

7″… I want a tablet for couch surfing, ebook reading and PORTABILITY. The iPad is too large for my tastes as it is not pocketable (even in cargo pant pockets) and I find it too heavy to comfortably hold in one hand when reading on it.

Ernie

IPAD the GREAT

INTENTIONALLY CRIPPLED DEVICE
No Multitasking ( even 8 year old nokia does)
NO FF camera for video chat
NO back camera for occasional photo
Screen that goes blank in sunlight
480X240true resolution
Horrible home screen with icons spaced 12 inch apart
No VOIP
No phone modem
iTunes crap
useless apps
reader that screws your eyes
battery that lasts 4 hours
5 year old OS
$500 paperweight
slow as hell
safari that takes 18 seconds to load google.com
hangs every 26 hours and needs reboot
Jailbroken even before release
MOST HYPED gadget of 2010
SOON to be left in dust by DROID tablets ( the REAL tablet)
Glorified oversized IPOD TOUCH
Stupid 4:3 Design good for nothing
Need you to go to gym daily to build muscles if you wanna hold it for more than 10 mins
Made in chinese sweatshops
Blood gadget
software updates every 12 months
Those updates that let you do FAKE multitaskin ( ask google how to do REAL multitasking)
Cab browse websites with HOLES in the page with no flash
one last word, BRICK PAD

ag

and still selling MILLIONS did you see MILLIONS eat your words LOSER…..

Ernie

Someone is taking other people’s names to enter comments. That’s the lowest form of low. Probably it’s PAPI, but I can’t be sure. Either way, I can’t tell now who’s writing what.

BGR has to make sure people can’t change their name when associated with an email.

Jarrett

iPad sucks. Tru dat!

Norm

I agree. DROID DOES
The walled garden approach is DOOMED.

Quix

I agree too. cant believe it took Steve jobs 5 years to build this piece of shit.

Mgl

troll bait but oh well I’ll bite. Apple decided to bring out the iphone first and wait till the market was ready for the iPad. 2010 seemed like the right time and now they have sold millions of iPads. Yes, Yes, i know iPad was first than the iphone but Apple was smart by bringing out the iphone first.

Mark

Sorry – Android is a good platform but HTC is OK at best…..I’ll stck with the iPad.

ag

me too

Rob

Me 3

GN

7″ is more then enough..10″ is too godddam big…come on now….I know that for a fact already…..well…soo the woman tells me anyway:p

GN

why not just get a really nice netbook for that matter….they are somewhere in the 8-10″ range, with cam software ect… on it…fold it away, open it up to reveal, and type really fast on the keyboard, without touching or compromising the pretty screen. use the wifi capabilities they have, really fast and efficient chips, really lightweight, pick your colors, no data plan attached. Im a little confused as to why…im just realizing now…the windows based OS…tablets are confusing to me I guess, when alot of the manufactures, are making these 4″+ beautiful screens now, that are almost intimidating, and can be confused as a tablet, due to the size and functions….I guess you can somewhat get the best of both worlds with the newer high end phones, especially if the manufacture decides to throw provider radios on board, and set them up for a plan, even though they have wifi also…man theres alot of cool gadgets coming out.

Turbocooper

Why buy a tablet with stuff like the HTC HD3 coming out? The supposed HTC HD3 has a 4.5″ screen with a 1.5GHz dual core processor in it. It might run WP7 but its so big it might as well be a tablet! Haha.

GN

hence my comment above:p

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I hope they made it into realisation…

Rickg13

I love the fandroids on this site! They’re a never-ending source of comedy gold.

I’m sure all of those android tablets will be full of win…….if they ever get to market. Maybe in 4 years when the market is absolutely saturated with android tablets that are all clones of each other (outside of the lame skins and non-deletable crap apps that Samsung and HTC will put on them) then people can crown about how androids market share has finally passed the iPad.

In the meantime I’m very happy with my iPad. It’s an excellent device for reading, games, and surfing the web. Additionally it’s turned out to be a great educational tool for my autistic son, replicating or improving upon other accessibility devices that cost ten times as much (and this isn’t even counting the dozens of educational apps we have on it).

drewdogg

10 or 7??? twss

patrick

@rickg13
So you are saying that people buy the ipad because of the design not the os, I only ask because of your statement “maybe in four years……“ its out the os that makes the ipad better or the fact that it was first? Let me know which one will give out more longevity in the market please. And in regards to your statement, just because apple decides not to license their os to other companies and you only have their choice, don’t hate on the people that have choices. Choices on phones, versions of os and now versions of tablets